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• Course Specific Materials
• Biblical Passages Important to the Workings of Science(pdf)
• The Mole Map
• Notes on the video:  The Mechanical Universe and Beyond
• The video The Mechanical Universe and Beyond is available on reserve at the library and by streaming video online.
• Help Guide for Excel from Computer Services
• Excerpts from The Belgic Confession, The Heidelberg Catechism, and Our World Belongs to God
• Essay:  What is Chemistry and Why Study It? by Dr. C. Fictorie (PDF)
• Beyond the Molecular Frontier pdf brief from National Academy Press
• Notes on the use of exponentials and logarthms
• Various Periodic Tables
• Web-Elements--The Periodic Table on the web.
• Learning and Problem Solving in Chemistry. Good advice and a systematic approach to problem solving in chemistry (and other areas, too!).
• Various Tutorial and Helps for Chemistry many with interactive calculators and quizzing.
• Calculator Help Files by Prof. Mark Jenaba or Willamette University. Most notable are detailed instructions for doing statistics on the TI-8x series calculators.
• The Chemistry Hypermedia Project--On-line resources for students, educators, and scientists.
• NIST Reference on Fundamental Physical Constants

• World Nuclear Association--represents the nuclear energy industry.
• Nuclear Science and Technology and how it influences your life.
• Nuclear Control Institute--an antiproliferation group.
• Radiometric Dating: A Christian Perspective--A Christian geologist explains radiometric dating.
• Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (US)--Particle Physics
• ABC's of Nuclear Science
• Particle Adventure

• Simple rules for naming compounds at Widener University
• Naming tutorial at Washington University
• Flowchart for classifying compounds into a naming scheme
• Glossary of Common Chemical Names from Science Company. Includes both common and archaic names.
• Commona and Trade Names from CSUDH.
• Dihydrogen Monoxide (DHMO) Research Division

• Molecular Model Database from Dave Woodcock.
• Jmol--an open-source Java viewer for chemical structures in 3D
• MDL Chime--Get the most recent version of Chime visualization software
• Glactone Molecular Modeling--Exercises for PCModel

• Example Set #1
• methylamine
• propene
• dinitrogen monoxide
• boron trihydride: equivalent to boron trifluoride
• Example Set #2
• hypochlorous acid
• acetic acid
• ozone
• bromine(V) fluoride: equivalent to chlorine pentafluoride
• Example Set #3
• ethanol
• methylacrylaldehyde
• cyanate ion
• sulfur tetrafluoride
• Example Set #4
• nitric oxide ion
• acetone
• formate ion and formic acid: acid form of formate ion
• chlorite ion
• Example Set #5
• dimethyl ether
• vinyl formate
• benzene
• ICl₂^-: equivalent to triiodide ion, I₃^-

• The Macrogalleria - a cyberwonderland of polymer fun. With a good sense of humor, too!
• 2000 Nobel Prize In Chemistry--"for the discovery and development of conductive polymers".
• Introduction to Infrared Spectroscopy by William Reusch

• Kinetic Theory I--Applet that illustrates distribution of molecular speeds.
• Molecules in Motion--Applet with two different gases in two containers.
• Gas Law Program--Control P, V, T, and n in a piston system.
• UCI Educational Applets--A set of interesting chemistry applets, including a couple on gases.

• All about Gemstones

• ChemLab at Dartmouth University. The page has a number of applets, including one on the use of Hess's Law
• Entropy Site
• ENTROPY and the Second Law of Thermodynamics
• Entropy is Simple, Qualitatively by F. Lambert. A good discussion of what entropy is, and isn't.
• Chemistry Applets at UC-Irvine.

• Mechanism based kinetics simulator at St. Olaf College.
• Kinetix--Kinetics Explorer at St. Olaf College.